Chapter 365 – Not a Coincidence, but Fate #2
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I like a noisy atmosphere.
But he also needed time to be alone with his thoughts.
This was especially true today.
If it had been an ordinary appointment, I would have missed it.
However, since it was a gathering he had organized himself, Hiyori decided to forget about what happened today and have fun with his friends.
The group of eight people, including myself, who were divided into half men and half men, spent time at cafes, billiards rooms, and karaoke rooms under Hiyori’s leadership.
Afterwards, around ten o’clock in the evening, we parted ways to go to our respective homes.
“Bye! Asahina!”
“I’ll see you tomorrow!”
Subway station entrance.
Hiyori raised her hand with a bright face as her friends greeted her in different directions and tried to say goodbye to her.
“I’ll go, bar…”
For a moment, she remembered Matsuda’s brightly smiling face in front of her and had to stop.
Bye Bye. It was a greeting she often used herself.
But I didn’t want to write today.
The reason was none other than what senior Matsuda said.
He said that he wrote these words while crossing an intersection while on a bus on his way to a kendo competition venue in the winter.
Normally, she would have thought of herself as just a passing person, but those were the words that Matsuda-senpai remembered.
That’s why it felt special somehow, and I felt like I didn’t want to write it to just anyone.
“Hi!”
Hiyori quickly changed her words, waved his hand, took a card with Miho, and entered the ticket counting area.
“Wasn’t it fun?”
While waiting for the subway together, Miho asked a question that seemed to read his mind.
Hiyori shrugged her shoulders and asked back.
“Did you see it?”
“How many days have I been hanging out with you all the time? Of course you can see it. “Is it because of Aoki?”
A teammate who was on a team when playing pocketball.
He was standing right next to me, boasting that he was good at playing the pocket ball, and trying to teach me excessively, which was definitely a little annoying at the time.
But that feeling quickly disappeared.
Because I was able to find men’s bravado cute.
“No. “It’s not because of what happened while playing today.”
“Okay?”
Miho shakes her head as if she understands.
Hiyori, who read his thoughts again, put her index finger to her lips and made a gesture to be quiet.
Then Miho smiled meaningfully and he said.
“Okay. “I’ll stay still.”
Hiyori, who had been chatting with her Miho on her way back to her house on the subway that arrived with a loud noise, was able to have some time to herself only after letting her go first.
Finally able to think about her Matsuda-senpai, she sat idly by, habitually looking at her cell phone screen, ruminating on her bond with him.
Although he has a somewhat strict temperament, he is very kind on the inside.
I felt like it was really fun every time I bickered with him who looked a lot like a tsundere.
More so than when talking to other people.
He also said that he had seen many people who treated him well, but he seemed to feel really good when Matsuda-senpai treated him well.
Why? Just because he’s handsome?
Of course, that may be the case, but the kindness that comes from a strict personality subtly targeted my taste.
I also liked the fact that even when I joked about something that wasn’t funny, everyone accepted it well…
The relationship he had previously thought of was so close that he seemed to be particularly attached to it.
He himself didn’t see him, but he saw himself, and we met a few times in a cafe before school started…
Furthermore, we met at a bookstore, and now we are seniors and juniors at the same academy…
What a coincidence. No, it might not be a coincidence, but fate.
I didn’t originally believe in this, but encountering it in an unexpected situation made me think that way.
Will Matsuda-senpai be the same as you?
Although it may seem like he doesn’t think anything since he is getting along very well with Hanazawa-senpai, the way he behaved when he met alone with him seemed like he was paying attention.
Ugh-!
While he was thinking about this and that, the subway door opened.
Hiyori, surprised to see that the station name written on the pillar was her destination, hurriedly got out of the train.
Afterwards, he leaves the station and slowly returns home, feeling the cool breeze, and tries to open the front door.
“Huh…?”
There was no key in my pocket.
He obviously thought he was fine by the time he got home from school, but when did he lose it?
At a karaoke bar? Or when you get off at the station?
I don’t know, but… It’s not that big of a deal.
It would be a big deal if no one was home, but in that case, you could just tell Matsuda-senpai the situation and ask her to play until her parents come back.
With one thought in mind, she rang her bell, and soon after, her door opened and her little brother, with one eye open, greeted her.
“Why are you ringing the bell?”
My younger brother brings a spoon with floating ice cream to his mouth.
Hiyori answered, snatching the small container from his hand.
“I lost my keys.”
“Why are you taking away the ice cream?”
“I will eat it.”
“Why?”
“Just.”
“Mom! “My sister stole the ice cream while swearing at me!”
My younger brother makes up fake news and rushes off to tell me.
Hiyori, who tried to catch him but lost it due to her speed, retrieved her arm that was cutting through the air and exhaled as if she was shocked.
“That hateful person…”
When I got inside, her mom was making something for her.
It smells fragrant, so I think it’s corn soup.
My younger brother must have been whining for it again.
With that thought in mind, Hiyori grabbed the back of her younger sister, who was clinging to her mother, and pulled him.
“Mom, I lost my keys.”
“You didn’t lose it near your house, right?”
“Huh.”
“Then that’s enough. “I’ll put a spare on the table tomorrow morning, so take it with you.”
“Do you have any spares? “Didn’t we run out last time?”
“I made a lot this time.”
“Dad said he was changing it to a door lock?”
“Did you?”
“I remember it like that… But you didn’t mention Dad?”
“Huh. You didn’t know? “Maybe I forgot.”
“Okay? “I’m washing up?”
“Let’s eat the soup and wash up, right?”
“I’m losing weight.”
At those words, the younger brother, who was holding the back in Hiyori’s hand, tilted his head.
“But why are you taking my ice cream? “Is ice cream making you gain a lot of weight?”
“Isn’t it because I haven’t eaten yet?”
“Is it?”
“It’s like that.”
“Then give me back the ice cream.”
“No.”
“Why?”
“It’s my heart.”
“I see.”
Hiyori weakly hit her younger brother’s head with her palm, who was convinced with an expression of not understanding at all, and put his ice cream on the table, pretending to be in pain, and went up to the second floor.
After finishing her shower, she jumped on the bed and lay down on her front.
She then picked up her phone and opened her messaging app.
Dozens of chats from various people.
Among them, there were messages from friends I played with today.
It stands out that the message from Suzuki is at the top, and if you look at him, he always contacts you this way.
It uses a system where the most recently received message appears at the top.
This is an extremely shady behavior.
Normally, it would be normal to frown, but since there were several friends of the opposite sex like this, Hiyori scrolled down, thinking about doing so.
Then she sent Matsuda a message, [Matsu Matsu Ken], And then sent a reply to her friends.
However, even though a long time had passed, she had not heard from Matsuda.
Are you sleeping? Or are you spending some quality time with Hanazawa-senpai?
Thinking like that, I suddenly feel bad.
Although she has no intention of disrupting a good couple, she has a deep connection with senior Matsuda.
As for Hanazawa-senpai, when she was not as familiar with Matsuda-senpai as she was, did she ever encounter him?
I don’t think that’s absolutely true.
Somehow I feel like I have to have it.
Honestly, if you ask me to take it away, I think I can take it away…?
Rattling.
“Sister! “Do you want some ice cream?”
Hiyori, who was suddenly broken out of her thoughts by her younger brother who entered her room without knocking, asked back while snorting.
“Mint chocolate?”
“Huh.”
“You eat it yourself.”
“Don’t you like mint chocolate?”
“You’re getting over the things you don’t like.”
“That’s right.”
“I won’t eat it because my intentions are impure.”
“Why? “I’m happy because I don’t eat things I don’t like, and I like it because my sister eats things she likes, so isn’t that the case?”
“Now that I think about it, I guess so? Put it on the desk. And bring me some water.”
“Then lend me the game console.”
“Did you do an hour today?”
“Huh.”
“Then you can’t. “Get permission from mom and dad.”
“I want to do it secretly.”
Who do you resemble to be so reckless? Anyway, little guys…
Hiyori, who had no intention of acknowledging the shamelessness of her younger brother who had flirted with her, nodded.
Then, my younger brother, who was happy with a bright face, went out of the room to get some water.
[Why.]
Meanwhile, I received a reply from senior Matsuda.
Hiyori suddenly touched the chat window and tapped on the screen.
[Let’s exercise together tomorrow.]
[What’s going on? I thought I would be in pain for a week.]
[No bias.]
[Are your legs okay?]
[You saw me playing basketball.]
[Do you feel okay? You have to be honest about this.]
[It doesn’t really hurt.]
[Then let’s do it together. Bring a change of clothes.]
[Yes.]
Now that I think about it, I have to return the clothes I borrowed from Matsuda-senpai.
Don’t forget.
“Sister! “Here’s the water.”
After finishing the conversation, Hiyori looked satisfied when her younger brother brought a large tumbler filled with ice.
After taking a sip of cool water, she opened her closet to find her game console and was about to hand it over to her younger brother, when a good idea occurred to her and she grinned.
“Hey.”
“Huh?”
“Open Animal Crossing with my account and collect all the opened fruits.”
“I’m not going to do that?”
“It’s the price of not telling mom. Just one lap and I’ll let you do it for two hours.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Okay.”
“Be sure to save it. “Close the door when you leave.”
After receiving her game console and title, her younger sister wandered back to her own room.
The items her younger brother collected should be used to exchange Matsuda’s favorability.
Is it because of a fair exchange?
Or is it because I made an appointment with Matsuda?
Hiyori, who was in a great mood, lay down on the bed and fell asleep with a happy face.
